It's Official!

The big news for us this week is that we are now officially eligible to adopt! Yah! Our online profile was posted today for the first time and that finishes the stuff that we need to do to be eligible to adopt a child. Jason and I are so excited. We have been preparing all year for this and it's hard to believe that we are finally eligible. Now we just have to wait for someone to choose us as parents of their child. The other big news for us is that we got a new computer!!!! Our old computer was very old and slowly dying...so for Christmas this year we got a new computer and we love it. It is fast and wonderful. Now to get everything loaded onto it...Other than that our week was pretty slow. We played with Rob and Tiffany on Friday night - which was a surprise - we thought for sure Rob would be too exhausted from his rotation but he was full of energy and came over. The boys played on the computer and the girls made chocolate Christmas candies. Then we joined up together and watched a movie. It was a lot of fun. Hopefully we will have more to report for next week.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! I love this time of year for a couple of reasons:
1. A huge wonderful meal with some of the best foods ever. We had a delicious deep fried turkey, lots of salads, mashed potatoes, stuffing, and my dad and sister's famous Sweet Potatoes.
2. Spending time with friends and family. We had such a great dinner with our good friends Rob and Tiff, another friend Andrea (unfortunately her hubby was out of town - we missed you Zach), and a family that we love the Walters (they have the cutest kids). To top it off a youth from our ward stopped by that night to play some games. We ate food, visited, joked and of course pulled out the games and had a great time.
3. Christmas is coming - As soon as Thanksgiving hits I pull out my Christmas music and decorations. So all weekend we listened to the songs of the season - it was great. Since we aren't going to be here for Christmas I didn't put up a Christmas tree - instead I decorated some of our plants. I did make sure to put up a nativity and Jason's Simpsons train though.
4. Day after Thanksgiving Shopping - I've got Jason hooked on the day after Thanksgiving sales. We get up super early, go buy the stuff we want, and then go home and go back to bed. Then later that day we go back out and look at anything else that we wanted that wasn't on the super early sale. It is actually kind of fun!
5. And most of all I love Thanksgiving because it gives me a chance to think of all the things that I am thankful for. I am so lucky to have a wonderful husband, an incredible family, great friends, the gospel, good jobs that support us, and so many many more blessings to be thankful for.

Our first post

Welcome to our weekly update! Unfortunately there is not much to tell this week about us. We worked on our Christmas cards and adoption letters to all of our friends and family. We decided to send cards to just about everyone we know this year with an adoption card showing our online profile. It is a huge project but will be well worth it if even one of those that we send to has an adoption lead for us. In addition this week we bought plane tickets to Utah. We are going to visit family for Christmas this year. We originally weren't going to go but then decided to do it. It will be a short trip but will give us cherished time with our families. Tonight we are getting together with our friends Rob and Tiffany to go see the new Twilight movie. I admit that I am hooked to the books so Tiff and I were pretty excited to see the movie. Luckily the guys were happy to come along with us. Well although this is a short first blog on this site that's about all that has happened to us this week!